Foxleap: SILVERBLAZE! Where's the next chapter? It was supposed to be published years ago!

I know, I know, I know, I'm sorry!

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I'll try, I promise.

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Jayfeather's POV

"Any plans for today?" Silverblaze asks over a bowl of cereal at breakfast. Lately she's been trying to get us to be more organized and plan things out. It's not exactly working.

I quietly eat some yogurt. "Nope, Bri- I mean, my friend can't meet at the library today, so I'm just going to stay here the whole day."

"I was going to try and beat all of my video games for the 538th time. It usually takes around a day," Foxleap states. Even though I can't see, I can tell for a fact that he's smiling.

"Rebelle?" I ask.

"She's not here," says Silverblaze.

"Where is she?"

"I don't know," Foxleap says. "Probably at the mall with Ivypool or something."

All of a sudden, I hear the door whip open and I hear Rebelle's voice as she exclaims, "I am not one of those 'mall girls', Foxleap!"

Foxleap lets out a laugh. "You're right; that's Silverblaze."

"Hey!" Silver protests, but I hear her laughing after a while.

"Where were you, Rebelle?" I remember to ask all of a sudden.

Rebelle lets out a slightly annoyed sigh. "Ivypool fell asleep in the park…"

"Again?" Foxleap cuts in.

"I think she was out for a midnight stroll with Bre- I mean, her new boyfriend, and he had to leave urgently. Something about his mom broke her leg and was in the hospital or something. So Ivypool found a park bench and slept there for the night. She woke up at four in the morning and called me to come and bring her home. Needless to say, I was pretty unhappy," Rebelle explains. "Yeah, not really like Ivypool. But whatever."

There's a moment of silence where all I can hear are forks and knives. I shrug when all of a sudden, I hear Foxleap scream.

Silverblaze's POV

"I'm blind! I'm blind!" Foxleap yells. "Jayfeather, I'm going blind! You have to help me! I can't live like this!"

From next to me, Rebelle face-palms herself. "The lights have gone out, you-"

"Language!" Foxleap sings in interruption. "But really, did the lights just go out?"

"Of course," I say, but the kitchen is really dark. Really dark as in I-can't-see-anything-but-darkness dark.

"Open a window or something," Rebelle complains, and I attempt to stand up from my chair, but I can't make my way around the table. I awkwardly stretch my hands out in case I run into something, which I thankfully don't until I reach a window.

Or, what I thought was a window. I can't find any curtains or locks or anything, so it must be a painting or a picture or something.

"Found a light switch!" cheers Foxleap, but I hear him flick it, even though nothing happens. The room stays dark.

"Maybe you forgot to pay the electricity bill," jokes Jayfeather.

"I bet Jay-Jay is right!" Foxleap exclaims. "Solution, pay it!"

"We already did last week," I say. "So no."

"I bet Silvey is wrong!" Foxleap exclaims. "Solution, laugh at her!"

He begins to laugh, but all of a sudden, I hear a bam as Foxleap mutters, "ouch. Stupid wall."

Now it's my turn to laugh.

"Oh come on," Jayfeather says. "You're all overreacting. Just get a flashlight or something."

"I don't know if we even own a flashlight," I sigh. "Even if we did, how could we find it when we can't even find a door?"

"Oof," comes Foxleap's voice as he runs into something else. "Found the door."

I follow his voice until I sort of stumble into Foxleap. I retreat, letting Foxleap move out of my way.

In the darkness, I find the doorknob and open the door. Unfortunately, the hallway is all dark as well. Wait…

"I guess the whole building is out of power," I call.

"Just great," complains Jayfeather.

"Oof!" screams Foxleap as he runs into yet another wall. "That really-"

I'm about to cut him off, but all of a sudden, the door to the apartment is slammed shut. I turn around and knock on the door, yelling. This freaking door won't open on its own, and I can't hear anything from inside.

It's all dark, and really quiet, with the exception of my knocking on the door. I sigh as I look around, trying to get my eyes to adjust to the darkness, but the most I can do is make out a little area around the corner which must be a hallway. Still, I feel almost powerless in the darkness. I wonder if this is how Jayfeather always feels.

I blindly stumble my way forward into what I think is the hallway. Just in case, I hold my arms out in front of me so that I don't run into a wall or something. I almost do, but then I find my way down the hallway.

I just have to get outside, I tell myself. I mean, it's my apartment… I know my way around the building like the back of my hand.

"Ouch!" My fingers hit a wall pretty hard, and I retreat back as I try to find my way towards the stairs.

Well, apparently, I don't know this place as well as I thought.

Finally, I reach the large door leading to the stairs. I push it open and carefully place each foot in front of the other so that I know when I hit the actual stairs. Unfortunately, though, I miss the first step down and trip and fall down a flight of stairs. I try my hardest not to curse. My knee is bruised as well as my elbow. Well, at least the stairs were carpeted.

I continue walking down more and more stairs. Thankfully, I'm able to figure out where the stairs begin and end this time.

Unfortunately, though, when I open the door in front of me, I'm greeted not by the sweet smell and calm music of the lobby, but instead by the heat and machines working in the basement. Oh, great. I forgot to stop at the second-to-last door instead of the last. The last door is the basement. Duh. How could I forget?

Of course, it's too dark to turn around and try to find the door. Hey, maybe I can find the light down here!

"Excuse me, missy, you're not going anywhere," comes a voice. I can't exactly figure out what it is, but based on the voice, it sounds like a tall guy standing a few feet away from me. Not Ashfur, but he almost has the same… accent as Ashfur.

I don't waste a single moment. As the guy grabs my wrist, I use my other hand to punch. However, the darkness gives me a disadvantage, and all I do is punch the air. So instead, I use my leg to kick his arm away from me and then I dodge to the side, trying to make my way past the machines.

"Hawkfrost! He's hurt!" comes a voice. "Someone, turn the lights on!"

I duck behind a box as all of a sudden, the tiny little lightbulb turns on. Even though it isn't much light, I still have trouble letting my eyes adjust to the room around me. I see a group of three or so people in the middle of the room, crowded around each other.

I try to debate what to do. I have no weapons, so I try to look around the room for something I can use. But then, my eye catches something… a wall filled with light switches, all of them off, except one.

While Hawkfrost and Ashfur and their friends are distracted, I creep forward and flip all of the light switches on. Each one has a different label to it… one reads, "lobby", one reads "floor 10 rooms", and so on.

I return to my place behind the box as I figure out what to do next, but my answer appears right before me.

Three dark shapes leap forward and attack Hawkfrost and Ashfur and their friends. Foxleap, Rebelle, and Jayfeather!

I hurry forward to join the fight, but then decide against it as I see my three ninja friends as they hold Hawkfrost and Ashfur down and handcuff their arms.

Immediately, Firestar walks into the basement. "Oh, Ashfur. That's the best you can do? Turn off all the lights of an apartment building for an hour? I mean, even Snowtuft was more evil than you." Firestar laughs a little at his own joke, but Ashfur takes it personally, from the look in his eyes.

"Hawkfrost's idea," Ashfur grunts as Firestar grabs his arms and pushes him forward. He does the same to Hawkfrost and the other guys.

Finally, Firestar turns to us. "I don't know how he keeps escaping from prison. I guess we need to send him to a different place. Far away."

"Yeah, that'd be great," sighs Jayfeather. Foxleap laughs.

"Thanks again, Firestar!" I call as Firestar heads away. He turns back to us with a smile.

"No, thank you guys," he says.

xXx

"So how did you know to come to the basement?" I ask.

Rebelle shrugs. "Well, Jayfeather realized that all the lights were controlled in the basement, and since we looked out of the window and saw that the rest of the city was just fine, we figured that it was just the lights in the basement."

"How did you know that Ashfur would be there?"

Foxleap laughs. "It's Ashfur. He's always to blame."

"True," I say with a laugh. "I'm glad they're sending him away. Where is he going now?"

Jayfeather sniffs as he says, "I heard he's getting taken away to the Dark Forest Prison, which should be on the other side of the earth. Nobody knows where it is for sure, though. But they have the best security in the world. Nobody's ever escaped from there."

I smile. "That's great. So I guess he's gone for good."

Jayfeather fixes his blind gaze on us. "One can only hope."

Slightly random, I know, but I hope you guys enjoyed it anyways :)

Another thing... *ahem* this may or may not be one of the final chapters...

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